Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give pleasure to the thousands who come to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon watching them play Just what excitement the average spectator could get out of such a pointless game is difficult to conceive. Neither college is interested in the affair, neither undergraduate body sees it in the light of an inter-collegiate contest. It is a private matter concerning only the possible players and promoters...
Colonel Roosevelt led a typical attack on Tammany graft and Governor Smith as the leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...
...swarm of airplanes rose boisterously over Roosevelt Field, L. L, and buzzed westward in quest of $5,000. They were small, light Class B land planes of the commercial type, flying for a money prize in a transcontinental race to Spokane, Wash. Twenty-five started; that night pilots of twelve went to bed in Chicago; the first official stopping place. Thick, drizzly weather and brutally bumpy air over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine...
...receiving sets, binding posts, crystals, coils, batteries were spread over three floors of the building. Some sets sold for less than $10, others for more than $2,000. Experts noted with enthusiasm the predominance of sets featuring the single control lever and operating without batteries from an electric light socket. In their opinion such simplification of radio apparatus will do much to bring instruments into the 21,000,000 U. S. homes that out of a total of 27,000,000 are now without them...
...largest power pool of a fortnight ago, last week became a part of a larger largest power pool. A fortnight ago Thomas N. Carter of Public Service Gas & Electric Co. of New Jersey announced the merger of his company with Philadelphia Electric Co. and Pennsylvania & Light Co. (TIME, Sept. 26). Their transmission lines of 208 miles represented the largest linkage yet. Last week directors of the company of which Mr. Carter's is a subsubsidiary-United Gas Improvement*-agreed with directors of the Philadelphia Electric Co. (already a part of the earlier merger) to pool their power resources. Their...